"christie punter" wrote in
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About the same time I noticed it was reading slow for ripping
purposes. I noticed , But am not teckie enough to understand why ,
but it must have been spinning the drive a lot when not in use Two
diff anto virus programs say no to virii, adaware and another find
the usual assortment of crap and delete the stuff.

Try using EAC on a brand new CD and see what happens.

http://www.exactaudiocopy.de/